A. Read the information about Mariana Fuentes. Then circle the correct answers.

SAVE THE OCEAN

Mariana Fuentos is a National Geographic Young Explorer. She studies sea animals, like sea turtles and dugongs. One of her favorite places is the Torres Strait near Australia. She looks after turtles on the beach.

1. Mariana studies (sea turtles/horses).

2. One of her favorite places is (the Torres Strait/France).

3. She looks after turtles (on the beach/in the sea).

Read the passage and answer the questions.

Champa is a sun bear. She is 12 years old. Bears usually live in the forest but Champa lives in the bear center at Cat Tien National Park. The bear center has a swimming pool, climbing towers, and comfortable places for Champa to sleep, eat, and play. Some of Champa’s family members live there with her. There are some trees in the bear center and Champa loves to climb to the top of them.

Champa has big teeth but she mainly eats fruit. Champa’s favorite food is mangoes, but she also eats apples, nuts, eggs, and honey. The park keepers bring Champa and her family fruit to eat every day. Sun bears usually sleep during the day and wake up at night. Champa likes the park keepers and wakes up when she hears them bringing food in the evenings.

Question: Where does Champa live?

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Sylvia Earle, underwater hero She has spent her working life studying the world's oceans Sylvia Earle is an underwater explorer and marine biologist who was born in the USA in 1935. She became interested in the world's oceans from an early age. As a child, she liked to stand on the beach for hours and look at the sea, wondering what it must be like under the surface.

When she was 16, she finally got a chance to make her first dive. It was this dive that inspired her to become an underwater explorer. Since then, she has spent more than 6,500 hours under water, and has led more than seventy expeditions worldwide. She has also made the deepest dive ever, reaching a record-breaking depth of 381 metres.

In 1970, she became famous around the world when she became the captain of the first all-female team to live under water. The team spent two weeks in an underwater 'house'. The research they carried out showed the damage that pollution was causing to marine life, and especially to coral reefs. Her team also studied the problem of over-fishing. Fishing methods meant that people were catching too many fish, Earle warned, and many species were in danger of becoming extinct.

Since then she has written several books and magazine articles in which she suggests ways of reducing the damage that is being done to the world's oceans. One way, she believes, is to rely on fish farms for seafood, and reduce the amount of fishing that is done out at sea. Although she no longer eats seafood herself, she realises the importance it plays in our diets. It would be wrong to tell people they should stop eating fish from the sea, she says. However, they need to reduce the impact they are having on the ocean's supplies.

Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER FROM THE PASSAGE for each answer.

1. What career did Sylvia decide to follow after her first dive? ……………………………………………………………………….

2. How far under water did she go in order to break a world record? ……………………………………………………………………….

3. What was causing harm to everything living in the sea? ……………………………………………………………………….

4. Where does Sylvia think we should get our fish from? ……………………………………………………………………….

Decide if these statements are TRUE, FALSE or NOT GIVEN according to the information in the passage.

1. …… Sylvia Earle lives in the USA.

2. …… At the age of 18, she hadn’t made any dive.

3. …… The experience of a close death by drowning caused her to become an underwater explorer.

4. …… Nobody in the world has dived a further depth than Sylvia Earle.

5. …… The team made a fortnight stay in a laboratory to studied the underwater house.

6. …… Until 1970, nobody had lived underwater before.

7. …… Sylvia Earle was worried about the amount of fish that were being caught.

8. …… Although people were catching too many fishes, marine life suffered from no extinct dangers as the ocean were huge with a great many kinds of fishes.

9. …… Her books offer some solutions to marine problems.

10. …… She thinks people should avoid eating seafood

Read the passage and answer the questions.

Champa is a sun bear. She is 12 years old. Bears usually live in the forest but Champa lives in the bear center at Cat Tien National Park. The bear center has a swimming pool, climbing towers, and comfortable places for Champa to sleep, eat, and play. Some of Champa’s family members live there with her. There are some trees in the bear center and Champa loves to climb to the top of them.

Champa has big teeth but she mainly eats fruit. Champa’s favorite food is mangoes, but she also eats apples, nuts, eggs, and honey. The park keepers bring Champa and her family fruit to eat every day. Sun bears usually sleep during the day and wake up at night. Champa likes the park keepers and wakes up when she hears them bringing food in the evenings.

Question: How old is Champa?

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Tìm 10 lỗi sai trong đoạn văn sau

Miss Lien live in a small house on Hanoi. She teaches English at a school there. She usually is breakfast in seven in the morning and she has dinner at twelve o’clock in the canteen of the school. She teaches his students in the morning. She teaches them dialogue on Wednesday to Friday. On Mondays, she teach them grammar. In the evening, she usually stay at home and listens books. She sometimes goes to the movies theater. She always go to bed at ten o’clock.

IV. Tìm 10 lỗi sai trong đoạn văn sau

Miss Lien live in a small house on Hanoi. She teaches English at a school there. She usually is breakfast in seven in the morning and she has dinner at twelve o’clock in the canteen of the school. She teaches his students in the morning. She teaches them dialogue on Wednesday to Friday. On Mondays, she teach them grammar. In the evening, she usually stay at home and listens books. She sometimes goes to the movies theater. She always go to bed at ten o’clock.

V. Tìm 1 từ thích hợp điền vào chỗ trống

I have a very close friend. Her name is Nga. She is twelve years old (1) …………… she is in grade six. She (2) …………… speak English. She has English (3) …………… Tuesday and Friday. She can also (4) …………… the piano. In her room, (5) …………… is a piano and some books. Everyday she gets up at six. She (6) ……… breakfast at 6.30 and goes to  school at a (7) …………… to seven. She has her (8) …… from seven o’clock to eleven thirty. Then she (9) …………… home and has lunch at twelve o’clock. It’s three o’clock in the afternoon now. Nga is in her room. She is (10) ……… the piano.

Read the following passage and write the letter A, B, C or D on the top of the first page to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

In 1972. a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Program. The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar to that existing for land areas designated as national parks. The designation of an areas a marine sanctuary indicates that it is a protected area, just as a national park is. People are permitted to visit and observe there, but living organisms and their environments may not be harmed or removed.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a branch of the United States Department of Commerce. Initially, 70 sites were proposed as candidates for sanctuary status. Two and a half decades later, only fifteen sanctuaries had been designated, with half of these established after 1978. They range in size from the very small (less than 1 square kilometer) Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California, extending over 15,744 square kilometers.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is a crucial part of new management practices in which whole communities of species, and not just individual species, are offered some degree of protection from habitat degradation and overexploitation. Only in this way can a reasonable degree of marine species diversity be maintained in a setting that also maintains the natural interrelationships that exist among these species.

Several other types of marine protected areas exist in the United States and other countries. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System managed by the United States government, includes 23 designated and protected estuaries. Outside the United States, marine protected-area programs exist as marine parks, reserves and preserves.

Over 100 designated areas exist around the periphery of the Caribbean Sea. Others range from the well-known Australian Great Barrer Reef Marine Park to lesser-known parks in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where tourism is placing growing pressures on fragile coral reef systems. As state, national, and international agencies come to recognize the importance of conserving marine biodiversity, marine projected areas whether as sanctuaries,parks, or estuarine reserves, will play an increasingly important role in preserving that diversity.
Question:What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. Differences among marine parks, sanctuaries, and reserves

B. Various marine conservation programs

C. International agreements on coastal protection

D. Similarities between land and sea protected environments

Read the following passage and write the letter A, B, C or D on the top of the first page to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 30 to 34.

In 1972. a century after the first national park in the United States was established at Yellowstone, legislation was passed to create the National Marine Sanctuaries Program. The intent of this legislation was to provide protection to selected coastal habitats similar to that existing for land areas designated as national parks. The designation of an areas a marine sanctuary indicates that it is a protected area, just as a national park is. People are permitted to visit and observe there, but living organisms and their environments may not be harmed or removed.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a branch of the United States Department of Commerce. Initially, 70 sites were proposed as candidates for sanctuary status. Two and a half decades later, only fifteen sanctuaries had been designated, with half of these established after 1978. They range in size from the very small (less than 1 square kilometer) Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary in American Samoa to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California, extending over 15,744 square kilometers.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Program is a crucial part of new management practices in which whole communities of species, and not just individual species, are offered some degree of protection from habitat degradation and overexploitation. Only in this way can a reasonable degree of marine species diversity be maintained in a setting that also maintains the natural interrelationships that exist among these species.

Several other types of marine protected areas exist in the United States and other countries. The National Estuarine Research Reserve System managed by the United States government, includes 23 designated and protected estuaries. Outside the United States, marine protected-area programs exist as marine parks, reserves and preserves.

Over 100 designated areas exist around the periphery of the Caribbean Sea. Others range from the well-known Australian Great Barrer Reef Marine Park to lesser-known parks in countries such as Thailand and Indonesia, where tourism is placing growing pressures on fragile coral reef systems. As state, national, and international agencies come to recognize the importance of conserving marine biodiversity, marine projected areas whether as sanctuaries,parks, or estuarine reserves, will play an increasingly important role in preserving that diversity.

The passage mentions which of the following as a threat to marine areas outside the United States?

A. Limitations in financial support

B. The use of marine species as food 

C. Variability of the climate

D. Increases in tourism